ELESIG – the Special Interest Group for those interested in Evaluating the Learner Experience of elearning is having one of its occasional face to face events on November 20th in Birmingham. here are the details: Impact of learner experience research – digital literacies Thursday, 20th November 2008 Evolution Suite, Longbridge
This is the first of a series of posts reporting on papers and happenings at the ALT-C conference held this week in Leeds. Bob Rotheram (Leeds Met) reported on the Sounds Good pilot about giving audio feedback to students, both formative and summative feedback on coursework. The technology involved direct-to-mp3
I really should be blogging about the ALT-C conference… I’ll be attending the fourth (but my first) ALT-C Edublogger meetup next week, taking place at Leeds Student Union Mine Bar, Tuesday 9th September, 19.30 onwards. Apparently: ” We may be moving on somewhere else but we’ll stay at the Mine
ALT-c 2008 conference: 9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UK First call for papers and abstracts The online submission system for ALT-C 2008 is now open: http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/papers.html Please read the submission guidelines for Research Papers and for Abstracts – http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html – and download the Research Paper Template if you wish to submit
Marion Miller, Manager, JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire and Humber, University of Leeds, summed up the contributions to the theme: Learning technology for the social network generation. She made an interesting suggestion that the VLE “has had its day”. The focus is moving away from VLEs towards social networks
I was looking through my notes from the ALT conference and realising that I hadn’t quite finished reflecting on the sessions. It seems unfair that the later sessions should miss out on reporting. I tried to attend some sessions that were relevant to my areas of expertise and some that
I’m the convenor of the ELKS community of practice – that’s E-Learning and Knowledge Sharing- and it’s a community of expertise in e-learning in HE, which is run for the UN’s GAID (Global Alliance for ICT in Development) initiative by BDRA out of the University of Leicester. It has several
I was certainly nodding at Tim Rudd’s exhortation to us to think about learning spaces for the future without being “held back” by starting from where we are now. We must not be bound by cultures and habits from existing methods of teaching and assessment – let’s be innovative! That
e-learning – making it work; from the preserve of enthusiasts to organisation-wide implementation QIA and ALT, with the support of Becta, JISC, LSC, LSN will be holding a conference: Place: Nottingham Date: 11 November 2007 Intended for: for practitioners and leaders in further, workplace, adult, and community learning. The conference
NMK Forum 07 will help you get under the skin of digital innovation and give you an unrivalled opportunity to hear leading industry figures talk about the future of the digital landscape. Delegates will also be able to participate in the debate about the digital industry’s future on stage, online,